the former

Hendon Reform Synagogue

London NW4

Congregation Data

Name:

Hendon Reform Synagogue

Address:

Danescroft Avenue, Hendon, London NW4 2NA.

Initially meetings were held in the homes of members. As the
congregation grew, services were held in the Methodist Meeting Hall in
the Burroughs and elsewhere in Hendon. Following the purchase of a plot
of land in Danscroft Avenue, the Congregation's first synagogue - in
what later became the Kingsley Fisher Hall (named after two founders,
Sidney Kingsley and Ben Fisher) - was completed in March 1955. In 1965,
construction began of an annexe which on completion became the
Congregation's synagogue, for which a consecration service took place on
14 January 1968.
(i)

The congregation was a registered (non-profit)
company, Hendon Reform Synagogue (company no. 07115198), a private company
limited by guarantee without a share capital (and with an exemption from use of the word 'Limited'), incorporated on
4 January 2010.(x)

It was also a registered charity (no 1135296), incorporated on 29 March
2010.(xi)

Hendon, a residential suburb in Northwest London with a large Jewish population, is in the London Borough of Barnet and was (until 1965) in the
former Municipal Borough of Hendon (incorporated as a borough in 1932).(xii)

(i)
Website of the Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue,
http://www.ehrs.uk, accessed in August 2017, which
includes a brief history of the Hendon Reform Synagogue and its
premises. The Congregation was first listed in the Jewish Year Book 1950.
↵

(iv)
Rabbi Dr. Katz is first listed in Jewish Year
Book 1951. With effect from the Jewish
Year Book 1983, Rabbi Dr. A Katz (1908-1996) is referred to as Emeritus
Minister. Rabbi Dr Katz was previously the rabbi in the small Czech town of Soběslav (Sobislau)
and was the only Jew from that town to survive the Holocaust, having
been out of the country at the time of the mass deportation and
murder of the town's population -
Historic Scrolls from Sobeslav.
↵

(v) Rabbi S. Katz assumed the ministry from
his father, Rabbi Dr. A. Katz (his father being appointed as
Emeritus Minister of the Congregation). He had been inducted as
Assistant Minister by his father some years previously, but soon
after this, his father suffered a serious car accident and so Rabbi
S. Katz undertook the burden of running the religious side of the
Synagogue. Website of the Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue,
accessed in August 2017. See Note (i).
↵

(vi)
Based on Rabbi Golby's listing in Jewish Year Books 2005 and 2006. Rabbi Golby subsequently served as a rabbi (pastoral support) at
New North London Synagogue (per that congregation's website, accessed 3 May 2018).
↵

(vii)
Rabbi Keren is listed in Jewish Year Books 2011 and 2012.
Israel-born Rabbi Keren, BA, MA, subsequently served as a senior minister
of Southgate Progressive Synagogue
from 2012 until present (per that congregation's website, accessed 3 May 2018).
↵

(vi)
Based on Rabbi Barnett's listing in Jewish Year Book 2015, the book's final edition, and
accordingly it is uncertain as to how long she served at the congregation.
↵

(xii)
The London Borough of Barnet, an Outer London Borough within the
Greater London administrative area, was created on 1 April 1965 upon the merger of the
the Municipal Boroughs of Hendon and Finchley and Urban District of
Friern Barnet (all of which had been in the former county of Middlesex) with
the Urban Districts of Barnet and East Barnet (both of which had
been part of the county of Hertfordshire) ↵

(xiii) The former Registration
District was Hendon, from the formation of Congregation
until 1 April 1999. All registers would now be held by current register office.
↵

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